Ecological Society of Australia Incorporated

The 2001 Meeting of the ESA was at the University of Wollongong, 26th to 28th September 2001

Thanks to everyone for a most enjoyable conference!

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Department of Biological Sciences

Institute for Conservation Biology

Supported by:

University of Wollongong

The Start

At the start of the Conference Professor Chris Brink welcomed delegates to the University, the Lord Mayor welcomed them to the City of Wollongong, and Professor Derek Anderson opened the conference, and awarded the Society's Gold Medal to Professor Mike Bull.

The Prizewinners

Robyn Bellamy WebPage	ESA prize for BEST POSTER "Familiarity and social interactions in the skink Lampropholis guichenoti" VIEW POSTER (PDF 60k)	Nigel Andrew WebPage	ESA prize for BEST SPOKEN PAPER "Potential impacts of climate change" View Paper HTML View Paper (PDF 480k)

John Porter	Australian Flora Foundation prize for BEST SPOKEN PAPER Joint Winner "Spatial patterns in seed banks of arid zone wetlands" View Talk HTML View Talk PDF (780k)	Ian Wright WebPage	Australian Flora Foundation prize for BEST SPOKEN PAPER Joint Winner "Enhanced water conservation in low-rain species leads to shorter leaf lifespan at a given leaf mass per area." View Talk HTML View Paper PDF 690k

Lynise Wearne WebPage	Blackwells EMR Prize for the best presentation on an Ecological Management or Restoration topic. "Why is Broom (Cytisus scoparius) such a successful invader into subalpine areas in Victoria, Australia?"	Mark Harris	AFF Prize for BEST STUDENT POSTER "Seedling Recruitment and Litter Dynamics in Disturbed Cypress Pine Communities". VIEW POSTER (PDF 68k)

	Judging the prizes- not easy!

The Posters

Poster Index Page

Page with list of posters with links to poster abstracts and A4 sized PDFs of the posters. Please note that some posters are not on the Website due to excessive size. The ESA CD will be sent out to registrants with a more complete selection of Posters at a higher resolution. If you would like a copy of the CD please email Kris French